Predictors of Dementia in the Oldest Old: A Novel Machine Learning Approach.

Journal: Alzheimer disease and associated disorders
PMID: 32701513

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Incidence of dementia increases exponentially with age; little is known about its risk factors in the ninth and 10th decades of life. We identified predictors of dementia with onset after age 85 years in a longitudinal population-based cohort.

Authors

  • Yichen Jia
    Departments of Biostatistics.
  • Chung-Chou H Chang
    Departments of Biostatistics.
  • Tiffany F Hughes
    Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Gerontology, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH.
  • Erin Jacobsen
    Psychiatry.
  • Shu Wang
    Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital 6 of Nantong University, Yancheng Third People's Hospital, Yancheng, Jiangsu, China.
  • Sarah B Berman
    Neurology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA.
  • M Ilyas Kamboh
    Human Genetics.
  • Mary Ganguli
    Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.

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